Rifleman Y/1022 Bertie Coley BUCKLEY

11th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Killed in Action at Langemark, France and Flanders, Thursday 20th September 1917, age 26

Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 115 to 119

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of Alfred and Elizabeth Coley (nee Buckley)

Husband of Louie Buckley, Phoenix Yard, Church Street, Atherstone

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Rifleman Buckley
• NNWFHS Atherstone War Memorial Page
• Tyne Cot Memorial
• King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Other information:

11 April 1914 married Louie Deeming at Atherstone Parish Church

Enlisted 1st September 1914 at Atherstone (army records on Find My Past)

Still appears on electoral roll in 1919

3 May 1891 Baptised Bertie Coley, at Atherstone Parish Church to parents Alfred and Elizabeth Coley, Kings Arms Yard, Atherstone

1901 Census living with his mother (widow) and 4 siblings.